Safety overall pocket



A. s. BL OWERS.

I SAFETY OVERALL POCKET) Patented May 9, 1922.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.29| 1919..

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. ALONZO S. BLOWERS, GE PORTLAND, INDIANA.

SAFETY OVERALL POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 192-2.

Application filed December 29, 1919. Serial No. 348,063.

T 0 all to ham it may concern Be it known that I, ALoNzo S. BLowERs, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city of Portland, in thecounty of Jay, State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful SafetyOverall. Pocket, of which the following is a full, clear, andcomprehensive specification and exposition, the same being such as willenable others to construct the same with exactitude.

The object of my present invention, broadly speaking, is to provide asafety pocket for overalls or the like, the same being simple inconstruction, neat in appear ance, easily and quickly applied during themanufacture of the garment with which it is connected, the same beingpositive in the accomplishment of the objects for which it is intended,and in which the cost thereof will be practically nil.

The specific objects and advantages of the invention will be brought outand made clear in the following description, and that which is new anduseful will be correlated in the appended claims.

The preferred means for carrying out my invention in a practical manneris shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a frontelevation showing the bib of a garment with my invention applied theretoin operative position. Figure 2 is a perspective view of a portion of myinvention as applied in operative position. Figure 3 is a detail crosssection, as taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. And Figure 1 is a detailcross section, as taken on the line 4.-t of Figure 1.

Similar indices denote like parts throughout the several views.

In order that the construction. the operation, and the advantages of myinvention may be the more fully understood and ap-- preciated I will nowtake up a detailed de scription thereof, in which I will set forth theseveral features as fully and as comprehensively as I may.

My invention is adapted to be employed in connection with the bib ofoveralls, the bib being formed in two equal sections, A and B, which areunited on a medial vertical line where they are attach together by thetwo parallel lines of stitching C and D.

The pocket is formed by two distinct pieces of material: the minormember 1 and the major member 2. The member 1 is in the nature of astraight oblong strip secured in vertical position, the left-hand edgeof member 1 being secured between the edges of the members A and B bymeans of the stitching C and D, that is to say,- when the adjoiningedges of the members and B are united the edge of the memher 1 is at thesame time secured there between, as shown in Figs. 8 and at.

The member 2 is of the same length as the member 1, but it isconsiderably wider, and its upper right hand corner is truncated, asindicated by the line as.

The left-hand edge of member 2 is turned under upon itself, or hemmed,and secured by the two lines of stitching y and a.

The said hemmed edge of the member 2 extends over the right hand portionof member 1, the ends thereof being even with each other.

The lower half of the members 1 and 2 are permanently secured togetherby the stitching y and .2, but above the central portion, that is abovethe reinforcement 4, they are not connected, except at the extreme upperedge where they are connected by the lateral line of stitching o, bywhich the upper edges of both members 1 and 2 are attached to the memberB of the bib.

The angular edge is turned under and secured to the member B, except atits lower portion, by the stitching Q0. The vertical right-hand edge ofmember 2 is likewise secured to the member B by stitching s, and thelower edges of the members 1 and 2 are turned under and secured to themember B by stitching (Z. Letter 6 denotes a line of stitching locatedparallel with the stitching s and a short distance to the left thereof.thereby forming a pocket for the pencil H. as the stitching 4/ extendsonly from the stitching e to the stitching a At the junction of thestitching c and 'w is a re inforcement 5. And at the junction of thestitching s and the angular line as, that is at the right-hand edge ofthe pencil pocket, is the reinforcement 6.

It will be obvious that the only opening into the main pocket is throughthe vertical mouth K, and that an article placed in the pocket throughsaid mouth can not inadvertently fall out when the wearer Stoops forwardor bends from side to side.

I desire that it be understood that various changes may be made in theseveral details of construction without departing from the lower andleft-hand edges, the left band edge of the minor member being securedbetween the edges of the members of the bib, the major member of thepocket being of the same length as the minor member but formedconsiderably wider and its left hand corner portions are truncated, ahem formed at the left hand edge of the major portion said hem beingsecured by two lines of stitching, the said hemmed edge of the majorportion being arranged to extend over the right hand portion-of theminor member with the ends thereof located even. with each other, linesof stitching for permanently securing together the lower half of theminor and the major members only, whereby a pocket mouth is formed abovesaid lines of stitching, and reinforcements located at the ends of themouth to the pocket and at the ends of said truncated corner, allsubstantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name to thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALONZO S. BLOXVERS. Witnesses:

RoB'r. W. RANDLE, R. E. RANDLE.

